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James Murdoch grilled over phone hacking failures
James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father’s scandal-tarred British newspaper arm on Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
Speaking under oath at Lord Justice Brian Leveson’s inquiry into media ethics, Murdoch repeated allegations that the tabloid’s then-editor Colin Myler and the company’s former in-house lawyer Tom Crone misled him about the scale of illegal behaviour at the newspaper.
Leveson asked Murdoch: “Can you think of a reason why Mr Myler or Mr Crone should keep this information from you? Was your relationship with them such that they may think: ‘Well we needn’t bother him with that’ or ‘We better keep it from it because he’ll ask to cut out the cancer’?” “That must be it,” Murdoch said. “I would say: ‘Cut out the cancer,’ and there was some desire to not do that.”
James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father’s scandal-tarred British newspaper arm on Tuesday, saying that subordinates prevented him from making a clean sweep at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
Speaking under oath at Lord Justice Brian Leveson’s inquiry into media ethics, Murdoch repeated allegations that the tabloid’s then-editor Colin Myler and the company’s former in-house lawyer Tom Crone misled him about the scale of illegal behaviour at the newspaper.
Leveson asked Murdoch: “Can you think of a reason why Mr Myler or Mr Crone should keep this information from you? Was your relationship with them such that they may think: ‘Well we needn’t bother him with that’ or ‘We better keep it from it because he’ll ask to cut out the cancer’?” “That must be it,” Murdoch said. “I would say: ‘Cut out the cancer,’ and there was some desire to not do that.”
